When Google Honored Ghana's Esther Ocloo - A Daughter of Gbi From Peki

"A dollar.

That's all Esther Afua Ocloo needed to kickstart Ghana's first food processing factory in 1942. She was a college student. And she was broke. So she used the money, a gift from her aunt, to buy some oranges, sugar, firewood and jam jars. She produced 12 pots of marmalade. And Nkulenu Industries was born. She sold the jam to her classmates, then the school, then the country, then the world."

READ FULL STORY  By Malaka Gharib, published by NPR at npr.org